Dr. Lynch completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a focus on Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He joined Penn State Harrisburg from Auburn University in Fall 2021. Dr. Lynch is a former Marine who was trained in warehousing and logistics. He has more than a decade of graduate and undergraduate teaching experience and has taught previously at Rutgers Business School and Queens and York Colleges at the City University of New York. He holds an MPA in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University as well as an Executive MBA from Rutgers University. Dr. Lynch has presented his research at major annual conferences including: the Academy of Management, Decision Sciences Institute and Production and Operations Management Society.